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I've been meaning to do this for ages, but never had the time or energy to migrate my site over to Drupal. This is only a temporary template, I'm working on the structure of the site right now. There's all the nitty gritties that need to be tended to. Anyway, it would be a great help if you email me if you find anything amiss.
Aadisht is in Mumbai.
Drupal Programming from an Object-Oriented Perspective by JonBob:
: Drupal often gets criticized by newcomers who believe that object-oriented programming (OOP) is always the best way to design software architecture, and since they do not see the word "class" in the Drupal code, it must be inferior to other solutions. In fact, it is true that Drupal does not use many of the OOP features of PHP, but it is a mistake to think that the use of classes is synonymous with object-oriented design.
From the Google Gulp FAQ:
11. When will you take Google Gulp out of beta?
Man, if you pressure us, you just drive us away. We'll commit when we're ready, okay? Besides, what's so great about taking things out of beta? It ruins all the romance, the challenge, the possibilities, the right to explore. Carpe diem, ya know? Maybe we're jaded, but we've seen all these other companies leap headlong into 1.0, thinking their product is exactly what they've been dreaming of all their lives, that everything is perfect and hunky-dory
Captchas, especially visual ones that rely on image recognition have always been a controversial idea; but the truth is that we're in a pretty bad situation with comment spam, and other forms of automated bot attacks, and this looks like the only trick in the book that's (somewhat) effective. I have a tiny hand in this mess, I'm the author of the quickly and dirtily written, ill maintained captcha module for Drupal. It sounds like a war cry in a HongKong action flick, but PWNtcha - captcha decoder, stands for "Pretend We
Been playing with written on 1 Apr 2005 - 3:51am|
To inaugurate the day, a chat transcript:
Arnab: did you know that a boy here was eaten up waist down?
Victim 23: sending one-liner messages
Arnab: here at iit...
Victim 23: what?????????
Arnab: by a panther
Victim 23: when?????????
Victim 23: oh no
Arnab: evening
Arnab: ya
Arnab: so we're all on high alert and stuff
Victim 23: thats horribleeee
Victim 23: okayy
Victim 23: who was this boy?
Arnab: AF Baba,,,, Btech 3rd year Civil
Arnab: you know anyone in iit?
Victim 23: okay